A Mystery Solved, An Excuse and We are Yellow!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

1 The Mystery

Some of you may recall seeing this humiliating video of poor Tara searching for her red ball in a pile of leaves.

Since this video was made I have been contemplating taking her to an optometrist for an eye exam.

But first I consulted with my friend Google and found some interesting info about our doodle's vision.

 The doodle color spectrum vs the human color spectrum:

As you can see, there is NO red in the Doodle world. This was a relief an interesting bit of info in regard to Tara's flailing about determined pathetic attempt to find her red ball. I say MYSTERY SOLVED!!! My Doodle girl  IS ready for Search and Rescue as long as there is nothing RED involved!!!

2. The Excuse

I also discovered THIS info:

"Visual Acuity

This is an area that humans hold an advantage. Resolution or Visual Acuity is the ability to resolve shapes over a distance. For instance it is not uncommon for a human to have 20/ 20 vision. This means at 20 feet they can see what a person with ‘good’ sight can see at 20 feet. However a dog typically has approximately 20/ 75 vision (range 20/50 to 20/100). This means that a human at 75 feet can see the same shape differentiation that a dog has at 20 feet from an object.

You may like to remember this the next time your dog is a long way off (with its head much closer to the ground) and you call them and expect them to see you. At long distances dogs rely much more on their higher audio detection capabilities and movement detection to see humans."

I thought I was having problems with Tara and her long distance recall but now I understand that she just can't seem me! (wink wink). Training problem SOLVED!!

3. We are Yellow

This is the really scary part!!! You have to see me wearing yellow to truly understand!!

How humans see:

How Doodles see:

Are we really yellow to our doodles???? OMD!!!

So there you have it! A mystery solved, a great excuse and sorry people but we are yellow!!

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Just                   threw                       up                dinner             in                my              mouth!

[Jennifer and Jack]

I just can not imagine not washing you privates for that long, hope he at least uses baby wipes to wipe! Yuck

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Jennifer, he just doesn't seem like the baby wipes type to me!

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Yuck!

[Donna K & Quincy]

I'm going to reserve judgement until you do the same experiment using a blue ball. :>)

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

I'm shopping for a blue ball right now! Stay tuned...

[F, Calla & Luca]

Watch out for the ads you'll get : )

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Are you talking about F's picture or Tara looking for the ball? LOL

[Janie, Jackson and Jilly]

This is so interesting (as well as humorous)! It looks like they can see blue pretty well based on the color chart, so maybe that's the color to go to for toys!

[F, Calla & Luca]

I wonder though if patterns would help distinguish things for dogs? For instance like the balls that are orange and blue stripes?

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

I would think anything with blue in it would help.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I'm not sure about this.  Murph can spot another dog well over 75 ft away, and he's not smelling them.  His eyes fixate long before DH and I even see the attackee other dog.  Maybe Murph has some "super dog vision" when it comes to spotting "prey". You may have gotten to the root of little Tara's issue with ball retrieval.  I still think this video is just adorable.